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Clinical Trials: Registries and Resources

• Current Controlled Trials - Search a worldwide database of clinical studies, submit a trial to the registry, and apply for an International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number.
• CONSORT Statement: (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) statement. The CONSORT statement is an important research tool that takes an evidence-based approach to improve the quality of reports of randomised trials.
• IMPACT/PSANZ Perinatal Clinical Trials Registry - a registry of trials in Australia and New Zealand
• NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre
• National Health and Medical Research Council homepage provides information on health research funding in Australia as well as information on the activities of its advisory role to government.
• NHMRC National Statement on Ethical Conduct of Research Involving Humans 

• New Zealand Guideline Group : an excellent source of guidelines and other information for evidence-based practice including a comprehensive list of links to evidence-based health care sites and resources. 
• 3 Centres Guidelines Collaboration, Victoria
• Royal Prince Alfred Newborn Care Guidelines
• The Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne
• Queensland Health Guidelines (password required)

• British Columbia Reproductive Guidelines 
• Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care  Systematic reviews and recommendations on preventive health care including prenatal and perinatal. 
• CMA Infobase: Clinical Practice Guidelines Clinical practice guidelines produced or endorsed in Canada by a national, provincial or territorial medical or health organisation, professional society, government agency or expert panel.
• Health Services/Technology Assessment Text HSTAT - National Library Medicine  A searchable collection of large, full-text clinical practice guidelines, technology assessments and health information.
• National Guideline Clearing House-USA The National Guideline Clearinghouse^ô (NGC), is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is sponsored by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly the U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans
• National Institute of Clinical Excellence NICE is part of the NHS UK. It is the independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on treatments and care for those using the NHS in England and Wales. Its guidance is for healthcare professionals and patients and their carers, to help them make decisions about treatment and healthcare.
• Neonatology on the Web
• Royal College O&G UK
• Society Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

• The Cochrane Collaboration  The Cochrane Collaboration is an international not-for-profit research organisation that aims to help people make informed decisions about health care. It is a registered charity in the United Kingdom.
• The Australasian Cochrane Centre  The Australasian Cochrane Centre is one of a number of Cochrane centres established worldwide to co-ordinate the activities of the Cochrane Collaboration. The Centre is part of the Monash Institute of Health Services Research located at the Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne.
• The Cochrane Library ( free for users in Australia sign in under "anonymous") The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, which provide high quality information to people providing and receiving care and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels.
• Cochrane Consumer Network The Cochrane Consumer Network's site contains a range of health care information, and information to help people understand health care research. It is also a resource for consumers and others who want to become involved in the Collaboration or other health research activities

• Arcus Statistical Package  This downloadable statistics package can be placed on a local machine and then used to calculate odds ratios, relative risk and other clinical measures such as Numbers Needed to Treat. The package also includes calculation of pooled odds ratios using the Mantel-Haenszel or Woolf method. It is made available by Dr Iain Buchan from Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge.
• Effective Healthcare Australia  The Centre is established to develop and sustain the consistent and focused effort needed for the implementation of the rapidly evolving knowledge base.
• Bandolier Links  A helpful list of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) sites compiled from a list of Andrew Boothís bookmarks.
• Centre for Health Evidence  The CHE engages in projects and partnerships that promote practice based evidence. A not-for-profit organisation, funded by grants and service contracts. 
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine University Health Network Mt Sinai Hospital  The goal of this website is to help develop, disseminate, and evaluate resources that can be used to practise and teach EBM for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education for health care professionals from a variety of clinical disciplines. This site also serves as a support for the book entitled, Evidence-based Medicine: How to practice and teach EBM by David L. Sackett, Sharon E. Straus, W. Scott Richardson, William Rosenberg, and R. Brian Haynes.
• Evidence-Based Medicine Toolbox  A collection of useful analytical tools for Evidence-Based Medicine.
• Evidence Based Medicine: Finding the best clinical literature This is a guide developed by the Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria, University of Illinois at Chicago, to assist health care professionals and students become effective and efficient users of the medical literature. 
• Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth 
• How to Read a Paper This series of articles describes in detail some of the fundamentals of critical appraisal. The articles were originally published in the BMJ between July and September 1997. 
• Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, UK  The Centre has been established in Oxford as the first of several centres around the country whose broad aim is to promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to anyone who wants to make use of them.
• The James Lind Library
• McMaster University, Health Information Research Unit  The Health Information Research Unit collaborates with local and International groups to study and redress health care information problems. Here are some projects: Clinical Practice Enhancement Project; Cochrane Collaboration; Evidence Based Medicine; Guidelines Appraisal Project; HEALNet/RELAIS Network of Centres of Excellence; McMaster University, Evidence-based Practice Centre; Program in Evidence-Based Care - Cancer Care Ontario Practice Guidelines Initiative; and Ontario Health Care Evaluation Network.
• Netting the Evidence - UK Netting the Evidence is intended to facilitate evidence-based healthcare by providing support and access to helpful organisations and useful learning resources, such as an evidence-based virtual library, software and journals. Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD)  based at the University of York contains systematic reviews on selected topics and full text of their
• Effective Health Care Bulletin a bi-monthly bulletin for decision makers which examines the effectiveness of a variety of health care interventions.
• NSW Department of Health Clinical Information Access Project (password required) The Clinical Information Access Program (CIAP) website provides information resources to support evidence-based practice at the point of care.
• NSW Health Department  contains information on the current happenings in the Department and is regularly updated. 
• Queensland Dept of Health, Clinicians Knowledge Network   (password required) he Clinicians Knowledge Network provides Queensland Health clinicians with access to clinical information resources at the point of care. The aim of CKN is to increase the quality of care by providing access to up-to-date information to doctors, nurses and allied health professionals throughout Queensland Health.
• Queensland Department of Health, Clinician Development Program Education Service  (password required). Evidence based practice on-line teaching program and guidelines development. 
• School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) includes links relevant to evidence-based healthcare including statistical software tools.
• UK Clearing House on Health Outcomes  The aims of the UK Clearing house are: 1. To develop and promote approaches to health outcomes assessment within routine health care practices 2. To encourage a shift from process to outcome measures and the use of patient centred and clinically relevant outcomes criteria 3. To support the use of process information and existing data sources where it is not feasible to measure outcomes directly 4. To raise awareness about key issues in health outcome measurement 5. To promote the role of health outcomes within decision making in health care commissioning and provision.
• Users' Guides For the Medical Literature   A set of guides to assist cliniciansí reading of the medical literature. The guides focus on using the medical literature to solve real patient problems. The guides include therapy/prevention, diagnostic tests, prognosis, harm, clinical practice guidelines, systematic review, economic analysis and variations in outcomes. 

• Agree Collaboration  AGREE is an international collaboration of researchers and policy makers who seek to improve the quality and effectiveness of clinical practice guidelines by establishing a shared framework for their development, reporting and assessment.
• Guideline Appraisal Project  McMaster. The Guideline Appraisal Project (GAP) brings health service researchers, policy makers, and practitioners together in appraising, summarising and disseminating information about clinical practice guidelines. 
• Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth 
• NHMRC Series on Preparing Clinical Practice Guidelines  The information contained in A guide to the development, implementation and evaluation of clinical practice guidelines (NHMRC 1999) is being supplemented with a series of handbooks with further information on the main stages involved in the development of clinical practice guidelines. 
• NSW Health Clinical Practice Guidelines and Clinical Pathways report. The aim of this status report is to provide a summary of key National and NSW State activities in the development and implementation of clinical practice guidelines and critical pathways. 
• Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)  SIGN is a network of clinicians and healthcare professionals formed in 1993 with an objective to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of clinical care for patients in Scotland by developing, publishing and disseminating guidelines which identify and promote good clinical practice.

• National Perinatal Statistics Unit (NPSU)
• Australian Society for Medical Research
• Australasian Collaborative Trials - Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide.
• Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia
• Centre for Clinical Effectiveness at Monash University  The Centre aims to enhance patient outcomes through the clinical application of the best available evidence.
• Centre for Clinical Studies, Mater Health Services Brisbane
• INSIDE International Interactive Inquiry into sudden Intrauterine Unexplained Death 
• Mater Research Support Centre, Mater Health Services Brisbane
• Monash Institute of Health Services Research  The Institute's mission is: "To be the world's leading organisation in the intelligent use of technology and evidence to promote informed, effective and efficient decision making by health care professionals, policy makers and consumers".
• Mother and Child Health Research Centre (formerly Centre for the Study of Mother's and Children, Melbourne).
• National Institute of Clinical Studies, Canberra  The National Institute of Clinical Studies is Australia's national agency for closing the gaps between evidence and practice in health care. 
• Centre for Perinatal Health Services Research
• Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ)
• PSANZ Perinatal Mortality Group (PNMG)
• Public Health Association of Australia
• TVW Telethon Institute of Child Health Research - Western Australia
• WOMBAT Collaboration (Women and Babies Wellbeing: Action through trials): promotion and support of perinatal trials
• Women's Hospitals Australia Ltd 
• Vermont Oxford Neonatal Network The mission of the Vermont Oxford Network is to improve the quality and safety of medical care for newborn infants and their families through a coordinated program of research, education and quality improvement projects. 

• Cochrane Consumer Network
• Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth 
• Bonnie Babes Foundation Supporting perinatal Medicine for medical research projects and to counsel families who are grieving after the loss of a baby.
• Information for Parents of Premees Dr Jane Brazy, University of Wisconsin
• Information on Group B Strep of the Newborn: GBSS -UK  and the Centres for Disease Control-USA
• International Stillbirth Alliance (ISA): an international non-profit organisation founded by stillbirth parents.
• Maternity Wise:The Maternity Wise program is designed to help childbearing women, maternity caregivers, policymakers, and the media understand the scientific evidence (education), initiate effective strategies for making care more consistent with the best evidence (action), and obtain sound answers to important questions about safe and effective maternity care (research).
• SANDS (VIC) a support group for parents who experience miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death.
• SIDS Western Australia 
• SIDS and Kids Australia
• SIDS Network Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Other Infant Death (SIDS/OID) Information Web Site

• Australian Capital Territory: Maternal & Perinatal health publications

• New South Wales: Mothers and Babies reports

• New Zealand: Report on Maternity, Maternal and Newborn Information

• Northern Territory: Mothers and babies reports

• Queensland: Perinatal Statistics

• South Australia: Pregnancy Outcome in South Australia; and Maternal, Perinatal and Infant Mortality in South Australia

• Victoria: Births in Victoria; and the Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity Annual Reports

• Victoria Government Health Information : Perinatal home

• Victoria Infant Collaborative Study

• Western Australia: Perinatal Statistics in Western Australia

• New South Wales: NSW Data & Statistics

• Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Network

• CEMACH (Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health):

• Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy (CESDI) and the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (CEMD)

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the The National Perinatal Statistics Unit "To improve the health and well-being of Australian mothers and babies, we will supply health statistics and information to enable well informed community discussion and decision making about reproductive and perinatal health. We will also provide leadership and excellence in reproductive and perinatal health research and teaching."
• Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System  
• Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-UK: CEMACH was founded on the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (CEMD) and the Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy (CESDI) and is part of a strategy for the development of the national confidential enquiries being implemented by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). CEMACH has a wider brief to include children up to the age of 16 years and its aim is to improve future care of the mother, babies and children.
• Queensland Health: Health Information Centre
  

• Children's Hospital at Westmead
• John Hunter Hospital
• Liverpool Health Service
• Royal Hospital for Women
• Royal North Shore Hospital
• RPA Women and Babies (formerly King George V Hospital)
• Sydney Children's Hospital
• Westmead Hospital

• Mercy Hospital for Women
• Monash Medical Centre
• Royal Children's Hospital
• Royal Women's Hospital

• Mater Misericordiae Mother's Hospital
• Royal Women's Hospital
• The Townsville Hospital (formerly Kirwan Hospital for Women)

• Flinders Medical Centre
• Women's and Children's Hospital

• King Edward Memorial and Princess Margaret Hospital

• Royal Hobart Hospital
• Launceston General Hospital

• The Canberra Hospital

• Christchurch Women's Hospital
• Dunedin Hospital
• Middlemore Hospital  
• National Women's Hospital
• Waikato Hospital
• Wellington Women's Hospital
• Gisborne Hospital
• Hawkes Bay Hospital
• Hutt Hospital
• Nelson Hospital
• Palmerston North Hospital
• Rotorua Hospital
• Southland Hospital
• Taranaki Base Hospital
• Tauranga Hospital
• Timaru Hospital
• Wanganui Hospital
• Whakatane Hospital
• Whangarei Area Hospital

• Bandolier Bandolier is a monthly journal produced in Oxford UK since 1994 for the NHS Research and Development Directorate. It contains bullet points of evidence-based medicine.
• Best Evidence Best Evidence is a CD-ROM, updated annually, providing an easy-to-search database. Contains every issue of both ACP Journal Club (from 1991 to 1998) and Evidence-Based Medicine (from 1995-1998), and more than 1100 abstracts.
• Clinical Evidence. Clinical Evidence is from BMJ Publishing Group, and is a compendium of the best available evidence for effective health care.
• Effectiveness Matters.  This free publication provides updates on the effectiveness of important health interventions for practitioners and decision makers in the NHS.
• British Medical Journal  
• Medical Journal of Australia
• New England Journal of Medicine
• JAMA
• Lancet
• Paediatrics
• Evidence-Based Health Care. The main purpose of this journal is to provide health managers and policy-makers with the best evidence available about the financing, organization, and management of health care.